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1863-05-11 Page 3
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They are making a military road from the point below here over to the river below Vicksburg in order to furnish Gen Grant provisions for his operations below Vicksburg & thus save the necessity of running the Blockade Every few days we had two men on board who were Scalded on the last run. One was Engineer on the Tug Both died. The Tug and 2 barges were sunk, 13 lives lost. I have been to see the boys at the Reg twice lately. Jo Schlabach is not getting along very fast. I wish he could go home. Still he is not dangerous at all Lowell Morton & Travis are getting better D.S. Holt Died the other day. All the rest of the wounded sent to Memphis have come back to camp, except Marcus Yake. He is nursing there in the Hospital. I went out the other Evening with our two Ladies and visited the Negro brigade. They are a motley set Men women & children of various shades of color and will be more of the same sort judging by the whites we saw sauntering round among the gals The only mistress a man can have here is colored for I have not seen a white woman here of the sort & there is none, only occasionally on a boat which is strange in so large an army. When we get Vicksburg I suppose they will be found We went into the yard of a fine
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They are making a military road from the point below here over to the river below Vicksburg in order to furnish Gen Grant provisions for his operations below Vicksburg & thus save the necessity of running the Blockade Every few days we had two men on board who were Scalded on the last run. One was Engineer on the Tug Both died. The Tug and 2 barges were sunk, 13 lives lost. I have been to see the boys at the Reg twice lately. Jo Schlabach is not getting along very fast. I wish he could go home. Still he is not dangerous at all Lowell Morton & Travis are getting better D.S. Holt Died the other day. All the rest of the wounded sent to Memphis have come back to camp, except Marcus Yake. He is nursing there in the Hospital. I went out the other Evening with our two Ladies and visited the Negro brigade. They are a motley set Men women & children of various shades of color and will be more of the same sort judging by the whites we saw sauntering round among the gals The only mistress a man can have here is colored for I have not seen a white woman here of the sort & there is none, only occasionally on a boat which is strange in so large an army. When we get Vicksburg I suppose they will be found We went into the yard of a fine
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